Spawning Social Media Surgeries.

If you’ve never seen a social media surgery before then John Popham’s video above is just about what you might expect. He shot it last night at the first such surgery in Leeds, which he started after visiting our first anniversary surgery last month.

Folk in Leeds are using a similar model to the central Birmingham surgery, you get some idea from this video at the most recent Birmingham social media surgery

It focuses on the informal and matching volunteer webby types to volunteer community types. As we found when we began these here in Birmingham, there seems to be a a great deal of enthusiasm in the digital community in West Yorkshire to get on and make things happen. Simon Duncan thought it a “great success”.

10 Responses to Spawning Social Media Surgeries.

They are so easy to run! The only problem is getting people who don’t know about it to find out, so sometimes can be slow to get started, but they can be great fun.

If you have even just a little knowledge about blogs or social media, then I would recommend going along to one of these, you may learn something, you may be able to help. Either way, it’s a nice feeling to share the knowledge.

We’re doing a SMS drop in this Saturday 21st November at Sheffield Univeristy Enterprise Zone (Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP) from 1-4pm. If anyone wants to come along to give us a hand/ get some advice?

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[…] The surgeries are organised by volunteer members of the Birmingham Bloggers group. Surgeons work as friendly advisors giving informal one-to-one help to show you how to make the best of social media. If you’ve never been to a surgery before then it might be a good idea to look here. And, if you’re interested in finding out a little bit more about what the surgeries are and their history have a look here. […]